TO

SUBJECT

South Vietnam

At a meeting on October 5, 1963,2 the President
considered the recommendations contained in the report of Secretary
McNamara and General
Taylor on their mission to
South Vietnam.

The President approved the military recommendations contained in Section
I B (1-3) of the report, but directed that no formal announcement be
made of the implementation of plans to withdraw 1,000 U.S. military
personnel by the end of 1963.

After discussion of the remaining recommendations of the report, the
President approved an instruction to Ambassador Lodge which is set forth in State
Department telegram No. 534 to Saigon.3

McGeorge
Bundy

Source: Department of State, S/S-NSC
Files: Lot 72 D 316, NSAMs. Top
Secret; Eyes Only. The Director of Central Intelligence and the
Administrator of AID also received
copies. Also printed in United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967,
Book 12, p. 578.↩